Lua, a British OS for human agent collaboration within the workspace, introduced as we speak it has secured €4.9 million ($5.8 million) in funding to construct out its developer neighborhood and the Lua Implementation Community.
The spherical was led by Norrsken22. Extra buyers embrace Flourish Ventures, 20VC, P1 Ventures, Phosphor Capital and Y Combinator together with notable angels Henri Stern (CEO Privy), Kaz Nejatian (CEO of Opendoor) and Med Benmansour (CEO of Nuitee).
Lua can be contributing to the EU-Startups Summit prize package, which is valued at greater than €622k and consists of funding alternatives in addition to credit for instruments and companies; particularly, the corporate is offering $12k in LUA AI credit to assist startups construct AI brokers that automate duties and interactions.
“The businesses that may win over the subsequent few years are those that construct their agent workforce with the identical intentionality they create to their human workforce,” says CEO Lorcan O’Cathain.
Related funding exercise in identical or adjoining segments from throughout the continent embrace:
- Within the UK, Attio raised €44 million to scale its AI-native CRM, Flexzo AI secured €10.3 million to develop agentic AI workforce instruments for healthcare staffing, and Zalos raised €3.1 million for AI brokers in enterprise finance workflows, making the UK a notable level of comparability for Lua.
- Elsewhere, Wonderful in Amsterdam raised €129.8 million to increase its enterprise AI agent platform, EvoluteIQ in Stockholm secured €44 million for the worldwide growth of its agentic AI automation platform, Blockbrain in Stuttgart raised €17.5 million to advance safe enterprise-grade AI brokers, Nexus in Brussels secured €3.7 million to deliver AI brokers into core enterprise operations, and Oraion in Dublin raised €2.9 million to increase its enterprise intelligence and automation platform.
Taken collectively, these rounds quantity to over €255 million, indicating sustained investor curiosity throughout enterprise AI, agentic automation and human-AI workflow software program.
Towards that backdrop, Lua’s €4.9 million elevate is relatively modest and sits nearer to earlier-stage rounds similar to Nexus, Zalos and Oraion than to bigger development financings like Great, EvoluteIQ or Attio.
“Most companies are both blocked by technical complexity or locked into inflexible instruments that don’t replicate how their groups really work. Most agent platforms compound this with black field tooling and per-outcome pricing: the extra your brokers succeed, the extra you pay, with no pathway to enhancing your agent economics. Lua is constructed on the alternative precept: groups personal their brokers, personal their outcomes, and construct compounding effectivity over time,” provides Lorcan.
Based in 2024, Lua is constructing an OS for human and agent collaboration the place any workforce, no matter technical depth, can construct, personal and handle their very own agent workforce. The corporate can be rising its Lua Implementation Community, a neighborhood of unbiased companions deploying Lua agent workforces in their very own markets.
The corporate is based by Lorcan O’Cathain and Stefan Kruger, who met whereas scaling a FinTech enterprise in East Africa – Lorcan as COO, Stefan as CTO. Earlier than Lua, Lorcan was MD of Zephyr Administration’s Africa enterprise, a number one VC/PE fund working throughout Africa, India and Sri Lanka. Stefan was VP of Engineering at Paystack, becoming a member of earlier than the Stripe acquisition.
Lua is an opinionated, full-stack agent platform with one-click deployment, accessible by way of CLI or a pure language interface. The corporate handles infrastructure, mannequin orchestration, information, channel integrations, and monitoring so that companies solely have to write down enterprise logic and select the integrations their brokers want.
Technical builders get a robust framework and full developer tooling. Non-technical groups get a visible interface that places the identical functionality of their palms. Each work on the identical brokers, on the identical platform.
In accordance with the corporate, a workforce can have a completely functioning agent workforce inside hours, coordinating handoffs between brokers and people, working inside their present programs.
“We’re thrilled to assist Lua. The founders basically perceive how agent and human workforces must collaborate to get work performed,” says Lexi Novitske, Basic Associate at Norrsken22. “Moreover, they’re a worldwide firm that has deployed in Africa, Asia, the U.S. and Europe with deep expertise, a quantity of knowledge, and a pricing instinct that’s troublesome to duplicate. We’re excited to assist them construct out this working system for human and agent workforces.”
Since launching its agent developer platform in October 2025, Lua has reportedly grown income near 30% week-on-week. In February 2026 alone, extra brokers have been constructed on Lua than in all the cumulative interval since launch.
